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At first it was easy to give up my normal life in hopes of quelling the surge of disease that spread across the country. Weeks…
Picture me, in 2019, sitting on a couch at some UMass guy’s house while a party slowly died around me. I only came to this…
What I didn’t learn from all my sex education is that getting the news about an STI is terrifying.
While it is delicious to relish the social position achieved by virtue of my shining personality and not by virtue of my body (something that I can’t say is true for everyone at this college), it’s also lonely and takes a lot of hard work. I’ve only recently begun to examine how this has happened and the ways that it has come to shape the way that I exist in the world.
The fight for justice within our institution By Aoife Smith in collaboration with Charlie Diaz, Ramona Flores, Lexi Luckett, Lauren Holland and Lucía González In…
In August of 1965, former news editor of The Sophian, Marsha Cohen ’68 was escorted off the set of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Then…
Celebration began as a student response to a hateful incident on campus in the ’90s in which the Wilson House steps were chalked with homophobic…
We write to address the recent Sophian article, “Dining Staff Face More Pressure and Less Support,” which details some of the issues Smith’s Dining operations…
Cancel culture permeates Smith conversations.